The OS as filmmaking environment

Screencasts have fascinated me ever since I saw The Machine is Us/ing Us. We all spend so much time in the interactive environment of our computer screens—why not make that literal, as a“shooting location”? This seemed especially appropriate to an online news-vodcast. I was also sick to death of the Rocketboom/Wallstrip model, which to my mind just apes old media too much. So this is a reaction to that as well.

Special thanks goes out to Michael Pick, who answered my Mac-screencaster questions with consummate know-how. We both share an interest in screencasting as a newnarrativeform, not just for software demos.